Ok, I'll go back and try to figure out a size for my partners to substitute for the sizes given in my block tutorial. Mine was 15.5" finished, so I'll just scale mine down a bit so as not to overwhelm anyone.

Thanks hon! I was gonna pm you but I got called into work and it's been a bad night, nothing's going my way it seems. You could still do the 4 in one thing you mentioned if you get the final block to be 12 1/2 inches! More variety and pretty colors

Thanks hon! I was gonna pm you but I got called into work and it's been a bad night, nothing's going my way it seems. You could still do the 4 in one thing you mentioned if you get the final block to be 12 1/2 inches! More variety and pretty colors

Since I had picked such a very simple pattern that I thought would be easy on my partners, I hadn't really thought about the overall size. I'll try to think on that today because I want to maintain the same circle to square ratio in the pattern, and if I simply size up or down mathematically, I could end up with really strange numbers like a 4 11/16" circle. And that would be just silly.

Since I had picked such a very simple pattern that I thought would be easy on my partners, I hadn't really thought about the overall size. I'll try to think on that today because I want to maintain the same circle to square ratio in the pattern, and if I simply size up or down mathematically, I could end up with really strange numbers like a 4 11/16" circle. And that would be just silly.

Yeah I was trying to figure out different sizes last night at work, but my brain was too fried.

Ha! I just looked at the tutorial for mine (paintbox) and the finished size is only 6 inches! But, just doubling the size of the strips in the tutorial should produce a finished block of 12 inches, right? I'll just have to make up a trial block to find out.

Ha! I just looked at the tutorial for mine (paintbox) and the finished size is only 6 inches! But, just doubling the size of the strips in the tutorial should produce a finished block of 12 inches, right? I'll just have to make up a trial block to find out.

Pearliepie, if that block finishes out at 6" (meaning 6.5" unfinished), you can ask your partners to make 4 of them and sew them together ... it should produce a 12.5" unfinished / 12" finished block!